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Hemprich's coral snake

Micrurus hemprichii
Kuhusu jina: The specific name honours German naturalist Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich.1
Anahitaji daktariMara chache huua, lakini kuumwa kunahitaji daktari.
Nyoka wa matumbawe KuumwaHula: Nyama
Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

Hemprich's coral snake is a small, venomous snake that lives in the rain forests of northern South America. It spends most of its time hidden in leaf litter on the forest floor, so it is rarely seen. It is one of the many coral snakes whose bright black, white and orange bands warn that it is dangerous.1

Anaishi
Northern South America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela1
Amerika Kusini
Nyumbani
It prefers forest below 1,000 metres, including lower montane wet forest, gallery forest, and primary and secondary rain forest. It lives in the leaf litter of the forest floor, where it is hard to spot.1
Urefu
70 cm (2.3 ft)3
ukubwa wa kawaida wa mnyama mzima
Kasi ya juu
takriban km 4.9 kwa saa (maili 3 kwa saa)
Nchi kavu, makadirio
Hula nini?
It preys mainly on velvet worms, and also eats small snakes and amphisbaenids (worm lizards).1
Kweli kabisa!Picha ya Hemprich's coral snake
Hemprich's coral snake. Picha: Rich Hoyer. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Jinsi ya kumtambua

  • Triads of black rings separated by white rings, as in other coral snakes1
  • The black rings in each triad are very wide, and the white rings are very narrow1
  • The coloured rings between the triads are narrow and orange, not wide and red1
  • The anal plate (a scale near the tail) is undivided, which is unlike other Micrurus species1

Mara nyingi huchanganywa na: Other coral snakes have wide red rings between their black-and-white triads. Hemprich's coral snake has narrow orange rings there instead, and its undivided anal plate sets it apart from all other Micrurus species.1

Nguvu ya sumu

Kuumwa

Sumu hutoka kupitia meno yake ya sumu au meno anapouma.

Ana hatari gani kwa watu?

Hatari kwa watu: MbayaKuumwa kunahitaji daktari. Vifo ni nadra sana.

Akiuma

  • Mweke mtu bila kutikisika na mtulivu na umpeleke hospitali haraka, hata kama jeraha linaonekana dogo: dalili zinaweza kuanza saa kadhaa baadaye.

Daima piga namba ya dharura kwanza (112, 000, 911). Huu ni mwongozo wa jumla wa huduma ya kwanza, si ushauri wa kitabibu. Misingi ya huduma ya kwanza

Kaa salama

  • Kamwe usimguse, kumkamata wala kumchokoza mnyama wa porini, hata akiwa mdogo, na hata akionekana amelala au amekufa.
  • Mpe nafasi. Ukikutana naye, tulia, rudi nyuma polepole na umwache aende zake.
  • Akikuuma: tulia, usitikisike, piga namba yako ya dharura (112, 000, 911) au nenda hospitali haraka. Kumbuka alivyoonekana, picha husaidia.

Hakuwindi wewe. Hutumia sumu yake kukamata chakula au kujilinda, na hupendelea zaidi kujificha. Zaidi kuhusu kukaa salama

Ana ukubwa gani?

Ana urefu gani?

Hemprich's coral snake urefu wa takriban 70 cm (2.3 ft)Paka wa nyumbani takriban 50 cm (1.6 ft)Mbwa takriban 1 m (3.3 ft)
urefu sawa na ndizi 4 zilizopangwa mstariangeweza kukimbia mita 100 kwa sekunde 73 (binadamu mwenye kasi zaidi anahitaji 9.6)

Hemprich's coral snake ana ukubwa gani ukilinganisha na WEWE?

Ni hesabu tu kwenye kivinjari chako. Hakuna kinachohifadhiwa wala kutumwa popote.

Ana kasi gani?

inafaa kujua

Ukweli

1

Velvet worms make up most of its diet, which is why one of its common names is the worm-eating coral snake.1

2

Its black rings are very wide and its white rings very narrow, which sets its colour pattern apart from other coral snakes.1

3

Its anal plate is undivided, a feature found in no other species of the genus Micrurus.1

4

It is terrestrial and mostly burrowing (fossorial), so much of its life is spent under the ground and in leaf litter.1

Kwa wataalamu wa sumu

Jina la kisayansi
Micrurus hemprichii
Kundi
Nyoka wa matumbawe
Familia
Elapidae2
Mpangilio
Squamata
Mabara
Amerika Kusini
Hatari kwa watu
3 / 5: Mbaya3

Ukweli unatoka wapi

  1. Micrurus hemprichii (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Micrurus hemprichii (iNaturalist): majina na uainishaji.
  3. Venom Wiki: kiwango cha hatari, ukubwa wa kawaida na makadirio ya kasi ni yetu wenyewe. Ona jinsi tunavyovipata: Jinsi tunavyopima hatari.

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